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Yoji Yamada Movies

Director

Best Known

The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai

Director, Writer

The Yellow Handkerchief

The Yellow Handkerchief

The Hidden Blade

The Hidden Blade

Director, Writer

Love and Honor

Director, Writer

Tokyo Family

Director, Writer

The Castle of Sand

The Castle of Sand

All Movies

164 movies

Directed 93

TBA

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

Director, Writer

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

Director, Writer

Mom, Is That You?!

Director, Writer

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Pure Love

Director, Writer

Vagabond Schemer

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Song of Love

Director, Writer

Shinema Kabuki: Renjishi

Director, Writer

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Director, Writer

Tora-san, the Expert

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

Director, Writer

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san

Director, Writer

Tora-san, the Go-Between

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Lovesick

Director, Writer

What a Wonderful Family! 3

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Matchmaker

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy

Director, Writer

Tora-san, Wish You Were Here

Director, Writer

What a Wonderful Family! 2

Director, Writer

The Little House

Director, Writer

Tora-san, My Uncle

Director, Writer

Stage-Struck Tora-san

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Director, Writer

Let's Have A Dream

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Forget Me Not

Director, Writer

Tora-san Confesses

Director, Writer

Drama, Comedy, Family

Where Spring Comes Late

Director, Writer

The Lovable Tramp

Director, Writer

The Greatest Challenge of All

Director, Writer

Tora-san Goes North

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Director, Writer

The Irresponsible Fool

Director, Writer

The Million Dollar Pursuit

Director, Writer

Adventure, Comedy

The Shy Deceiver

Director, Writer

What a Wonderful Family!

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Shattered Romance

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Easy Advice

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Tropical Fever

Director, Writer

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Tora-san Makes Excuses

Director, Writer

It's a Flickering Life

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Promise

Director, Writer

Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again

Director, Writer

The Yellow Handkerchief

Director, Writer

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Director, Writer

The Honest Fool

Director, Writer

Drama, Comedy, History

The Rainbow Seeker 2

Director, Writer

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Island Encounter

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Comedy, Romance

Director, Writer

Home from the Sea

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Tora-san Plays Daddy

Director, Writer

Tora-san Plays Cupid

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

Director, Writer

Drama, Crime, Mystery

Tora-san's Lullaby

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version

Director, Writer

The Rainbow Seeker

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

About Her Brother

Director, Writer

Foster Daddy, Tora!

Director, Writer

Tora-san Loves an Artist

Director, Writer

Kabei: Our Mother

Director, Writer

A Class to Remember II

Director, Writer

Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Director, Writer

Tora-san Goes to Vienna

Director, Writer

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Director, Writer

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

Director, Writer

戦争童画集～75年目のショートストーリー～

Downtown Heroes

Director, Writer

The Strangers Upstairs

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Director, Writer

The Sunshine Girl

Director, Writer

Tora-san to the Rescue

Director, Writer

2025

Director, Writer

2017

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

Director, Writer

2007

Director, Writer

2005

The Hidden Blade

Director, Writer

2004

The Twilight Samurai

Director, Writer

1994

A Class to Remember

Director, Writer

1980

A Distant Cry from Spring

Director, Writer

1979

Talk of the Town Tora-san

Director, Writer

1978

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Director, Writer

1976

Tora-san, the Intellectual

Director, Writer

1975

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

Director, Writer

1974

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

Director, Writer

1973

Tora-san's Love Call

Director, Writer

1971

Tora-san's Runaway

Director, Writer

Acting 2

TBA

55th anniversary performance of Tora-San: Rakugo, Talk and Tora Jiro Returns

Writing & Producing 61

TBA

Tora-san, His Tender Love

At the Side of the Bridge

Free and Easy 20: Final

Women Can't Be Beaten

At the Side of the Bridge 3

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi

Toki no kagayaki

Free and Easy 2

Akatsuki no chiheisen

Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen

Salaryman Senka Tanshin Funin

Free and Easy 6

Free and Easy 8

Free and Easy 13

The Yellow Handkerchief

Drama, TV Movie

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)

Writer, Adaptation

Free and Easy Special

Older Brother, Younger Sister

Free and Easy 14

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

Oretachi no toki

Center of Tokyo

I, the Executioner

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Days with Harasu

Sea Without Exit

Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao

Yellow Cherries

Follow the Girls

Free and Easy 5

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

Ore wa inaka no puresurī

Free and Easy 17

Itoshi no Lahaina

Adventure, Comedy, Family

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

At the Side of the Bridge 4

Free and Easy 7

Salaryman Senka

Free and Easy 10

Free and Easy 16

Free and Easy 4

A Distant Cry from Spring

At the Side of the Bridge 2

The Call of a Faraway Mountain

Shin Salaryman Senka

Ohana han: Dai ni bu

The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow

Home Sweet Home

Drama, Family, TV Movie

2010

The Yellow Handkerchief

2004

Drama, Crime, Mystery

1975

The Castle of Sand

Drama, Crime, Mystery

Other 8

TBA

Film Director Satsuo Yamamoto

Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa

Animation, Drama, Comedy

700 Days with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Seijo Story 60 Years of Making Films

Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki

One-Way Ticket to Love

Assistant Director

Drama, Music, Romance

1987

I Lived, But...